PRX - Pieces for Topic: War
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Two episodes about reflecting on our past.
Bought by KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio)
- Added: Jun 14, 2023
- Length: 50:01
- Purchases: 1
The last US soldier to leave Afghanistan returned home this August, but private security personnel long outnumbered US troops in that war, and the ...
Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KDNK, and WNYE
- Added: Aug 10, 2022
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 5
Gil Rose, conductor of the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, tells the history of George Antheil's wild musical experiment from 1924, the Ballet Méc...
Bought by KICI Iowa City, KICI Iowa City, KPIP-LP, WABE, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and more
- Added: Sep 23, 2014
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 7
Carl Conradi, of the Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative, considers the notion of 'bearing witness' as it relates to the Initiative's efforts ...
- Added: Jul 03, 2013
- Length: 10:05
By World War I, Sha'arawi had established a women's welfare society to raise money for poor women, had helped to found a union for educated Egyptia...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:34
For nearly two years, using multiple false identities, Petit not only gathered and passed information, but assisted the underground resistance and ...
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:19
Led by Raskova, three groups of women warriors (most of them about twenty-years-old or so) racked up a total record of 30,000 combat missions dropp...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:43
Kahn was flown into Nazi-occupied France where she became indispensable for her transmissions by wire from Paris.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
During WWII Parsons dismissed all her servants and turned her house into a hiding place for downed British and American airmen.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:22
When Adolph Hitler sent his troops into Russia in 1941, Litvyak lied about her flying experience and signed up to serve her country.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:04
Jennie Hodgers took the name Albert Cashier, put on a pair of pants and joined the Union army.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Jane Goodwin Austin became known as “Calamity Jane,” with the Mexican government placing a $1000 bounty on her head.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 01:46
From Baghdad to Western Sahara, an alphabetic listing of the world’s prominent separation barriers builds a wall of its own.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 11, 2011
- Length: 03:01
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jul 09, 2010
- Length: 29:00
A Dartmouth student travels to Vietnam to document in sculpture the legacy of Agent Orange.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Oct 20, 2009
- Length: 07:13
- Purchases: 1